"Decker said she expects the results to be ‘between the mid-point and the low end of the range’ of expectations."

Timing-wise, this quarter is being set up for a, "do over"… that’s why the stock is dropping.

Worse, it runs counter to the, "everything-is-great-and-we’re-so-excited-to-talk-about-it-during-our-upcoming-earnings-call" verbiage Semel was inappropriately bragging about at last week’s shareholder meeting.

A double burn.

At least that’s the way Goldman and Jefferies probably saw it as they downgraded YHOO this morning.

A triple and quadruple burn.

Hard for a stock to go up in the face of that stuff.

P.S. If YHOO misses by a penny again, betcha Semel’s comp package is responsible for that miss… again.